RE: Encouraging intelligence in our youth!! Finally!
May 13, 2013 at 3:11 pm
(This post was last modified: May 13, 2013 at 3:14 pm by The Reality Salesman01.)
(May 13, 2013 at 2:04 pm)festive1 Wrote: My oldest has expressed an interest in joining Scouting. I'm ambivalent about it because of their stance on homosexuals and atheists, though our local groups are very liberal in these regards. I've been looking into Camp Quest as an alternative. There's some things I like (co-ed, secular), but my hang up is that Camp Quest isn't as widely recognized as the Scouts. When you're thinking ahead to college applications, being an Eagle Scout carries weight in that arena, whereas the Camp Quest equivalent does not. I'd happily send him to CQ, but would like for his achievements to be recognized as they are with the more popular Boy Scouts... Perhaps it will be by the time he gets to college application time... But application credit or no, he'd still have the skills... Decisions, decisions.
No doubt! My son is only 4, and I hadn't considered the things you mentioned as reasons for boy scouts, but they are indeed good ones worthy of consideration. I think that even if my son were only able to go even for one summer, once he's 8 or 9, just to get exposed to it in a social setting, one that doesn't encourage a disbelief in God, but at the same time, doesn't view the path that leads one to atheism as taboo. Real free thought! I do not wish any sort of beliefs to be impressed on my son nor will it be a ploy to discourage him from exploring others, I just want to see to it that he is well equipped to adopt logical ones and apply good reason to them. This sounds like the perfect exposure for such a start, and the encouragement from someone other than Dad,would perhaps activate an eagerness within to reach for what he once percieved as a limit. I'm from Texas and grew up in a Christian household. There's only 2 things that weren't to be questioned in my house ( 1-The Dallas Cowboys are the best team in the NFL.; 2-God is responsible for everything.) Nowadays, i'm not sure about either, but I still entertain the idea of the first one. Lol, funny how life works. Good luck, and I wish you the best with whatever you choose!
(May 13, 2013 at 2:44 pm)goodnews Wrote: First page . Our goals / Demonstrate atheism and humanism in a ....... the word demonstrate means to show by reasoning, prove / sounds to me like they are to impose a theory, they cant prove and they have put a system in place to do it, sound like smells like, looks like a tastes like a religion to me ! HAY TEACHER LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE ,sorry could not resist it
Dude...You're really reaching for someting that is just not there at this point. You see that right? How do you infer that anything is being "imposed" first of all, and secondly... You aren't really calling Atheism a theory now, are you?
